I don’t know if Drupal vs. WordPress would ever rise to to the level of PC vs. Mac or Google Plus vs. Facebook.
The stats show that WordPress pulls a huge following. However, just because everyone uses it, doesn’t mean it’s the best fit for every web project.
Now, here’s everything you wanted to know about Drupal, but were afraid to ask (because everyone you know uses WordPress):
If you use Drupal, stand-up and be counted!
Leave a comment and let your voice be heard!
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Chris Coppenbarger says
We launched http://www.ciu.edu on Drupal 6 in March of this year. I was the lead developer on the project. It was a migration from custom php/mysql.
I had developed http;//www.3rbc.com on Drupal 6 and was going to upgrade to Drupal 7. Decided to try my hand at converting it to WordPress instead and just launched it this last week on WordPress.
I like both systems, but I see where WordPress is better suited for blogs and small sites.
Drupal is better suited for large sites, from what I can tell.
Matthew Snider says
What do you mean by large sites? Content wise of visitors?
I have friends who run movie sites that get over 2million pageviews a month and have over 50,000 posts.
http://www.slashfilm.com and http://www.firstshowing.net are a couple of the bigger ones my buddies run
Chris Coppenbarger says
I meant large, as in content, not in amount of visitors.
We have many different types of content to create and manage and so Drupal served much better in management in this area.
If you only have a few different content types, WordPress might serve better.
Those sites you mentioned are blog sites, and so WP serves best for them.
DrupalArt says
Totally agree! Content types in drupal are great tool – show me another CMS with that feature 🙂
Eric Dye says
Thanks for sharing the great links, and giving Drupal a voice around here. Much appreciated, man.
Brendan says
I’m the graphics at my church, and three years ago—with the help of a code-minded volunteer—we used Drupal to develop our church’s first actually functioning website, http://www.nwbible.org.
We have been really happy with the power, ease of use and flexibility of Drupal. In the next year we plan to completely overhaul our site for the first time and it will be built with Drupal 7.
But I’m also helping with a web overhaul of an orphanage that our church teamed up with in Malawi. This new project is in WordPress. So right now I’m walking the line and I have no complaints. WordPress is still new to me so Drupal feels like home. I’m definitely looking forward to being skilled with both CMS’s.
Eric Dye says
I think that’s a powerful mix. Just like knowing more than one spoken language, it makes you better at both.
Hats off to you, Sir!
🙂
Ben says
This has me thinking about branching out. I have a brother-in-law who LOVES joomla. I know Drupel isn’t Joomla but based on the infograph you’ve supplied I’m thinking of trying my hand at it.
How different is it than WordPress? (How can you answer that question?)
Eric Dye says
You’ve got me thinking Ben.
Andre' Barnes says
I have used WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and Expression Engine. I recently used Drupal for a large website and at first I was going to pick WordPress but when I started to see how complex the site was going to become I was thankful that we picked Drupal.
Eric Dye says
Sweet. A multi-user weighs-in! Thank you for your insight!